The healthcare industry at large is used as a case study to suggest a methodological
technique for evaluating patent citation networks to analyze cross-country …

This study proposes a methodological approach to investigate cross-country
creativity/knowledge flows by analyzing patent citation networks, taking the aircraft, aviation …

This study aims at mining cross-country creativity/knowledge flows of patented blockchain
applications–and their technological trajectories–through patent citation networks. It tests …

Acquiring patents is an increasingly relevant opportunity for innovating companies,
especially after the rise and development of the so-called markets for technologies (MFTs) …

In general, the structural and behavioral patterns of technological innovation are
idiosyncratic across industrial sectors and dynamic over time. Yet, despite voluminous …

Literature on innovation strategy has increasingly highlighted the vital role of cross-
disciplinary knowledge in the development of important inventions. However, a number of …

Background Despite the significant impact of pharmaceutical innovations on healthcare, our
understanding is still limited because previous studies explored only a few cases and …

This study explores to what extent scientific knowledge has contributed to the development
of industrial technologies. Backward citation is used to track the contribution of scientific …

The present paper extends the literature investigating key drivers leading certain patents to
exert a stronger influence on the subsequent technological developments (inventions) than …

The importance of the knowledge producing sector in economic development is widely
recognised and is not a recent acquisition of economic thinking. Nonetheless, several new …